Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
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Top 5
Apr 4, 2025
The interface can feel clunky and outdated compared to AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage.
While scalable, latency can be an issue for high-throughput applications, especially during peak load times.
Improved performance for small object retrievals would be helpful. Compared to AWS and Azure, IBM Cloud Object Storage has a less robust integration ecosystem.
Native support for more modern DevOps tools and frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes-native integrations) would be beneficial.
Account Technology Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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Top 5
Feb 12, 2025
Room for improvement depends on customer needs. Some customers prefer pure Object Storage using the S3 protocol, while others use a gateway in front of the storage grid to enable CIFS or NFS. I prefer when Object Storage provides S3 capability.
One improvement could be incorporating a feature similar to Dropbox's version history. This would allow users to track modifications made to files over time, which is particularly important for maintaining a record of changes. While the free version might not include this feature, it could be included in the paid version to provide added value to clients. Additionally, having a version history feature that allows users to access modifications made to files over the past three months could be beneficial. I believe it could be beneficial for our clients. Sometimes, files are lost, and clients may want to retrieve them. The tool could offer different options. For example, they could charge for three months, six months, or even a year of file history. Integration with other tools like Kafka, Confluence, and Apache would be beneficial. IBM Aspera is already integrated with IBM Cloud Object Storage.
All cloud environments have been pretty robust over the last few years. Of course, there's always room for improvement. If I had to choose one area, it would be making the consoles more intuitive would be helpful. Sometimes, they can be a little complicated if you're not familiar with them. Focusing on a more user-friendly console experience would be a good direction.
Sun and IBM PSeries HW - Unix Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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Mar 13, 2024
One area where IBM Cloud Object Storage could potentially improve is in modernizing its underlying codebase. While it is a robust and reliable solution, updating the technology stack could enhance its compatibility with newer frameworks and ensure it remains competitive in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
I can't mention right now what can be improved because I haven't explored the solution in-depth, so I just use it for the standard one. The UI is a good one till now, but it can be improved. Every time in the software world, there are a lot of improvements needed every time you come up with some new solution, especially in the UI part. So it's the customers who like it. IBM has limited cloud storage. The portability of the storage is needed, like how AWS supports Snow and other portable storage. So that needs to be included. Also, the one thing I mentioned here is that the good one is IBM Aspera for transferring mostly the infrastructure or the data, which was a very fast process. Snow is something from AWS that I would like to be added to IBM.
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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Apr 10, 2022
The performance could be better. It isn't bad, but everything is network-based, so you have a performance penalty on the network. You can never achieve the same performance as hardware. That's the disadvantage of cloud storage solutions in general. Cloud performance is one of the main issues clients have. I wouldn't use it for business-critical data that customers need to access regularly. It's suitable for storing code data. For example, say you're required to retain data for 10 or 20 years, and nobody's using it, but you need to keep it for legal purposes. Cloud Object Storage is suitable for holding that kind of data. I would like IBM to improve performance. I know that there are other tools that can help you, but you need to buy another license. For example, Aspera can help you with network latency.
IBM Cloud Object Storage is a web-scale platform that stores unstructured data - from petabyte to exabyte - with reliability, security, availability and disaster recovery without replication.
The interface can feel clunky and outdated compared to AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage.
While scalable, latency can be an issue for high-throughput applications, especially during peak load times.
Improved performance for small object retrievals would be helpful.
Compared to AWS and Azure, IBM Cloud Object Storage has a less robust integration ecosystem.
Native support for more modern DevOps tools and frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes-native integrations) would be beneficial.
Room for improvement depends on customer needs. Some customers prefer pure Object Storage using the S3 protocol, while others use a gateway in front of the storage grid to enable CIFS or NFS. I prefer when Object Storage provides S3 capability.
One improvement could be incorporating a feature similar to Dropbox's version history. This would allow users to track modifications made to files over time, which is particularly important for maintaining a record of changes. While the free version might not include this feature, it could be included in the paid version to provide added value to clients. Additionally, having a version history feature that allows users to access modifications made to files over the past three months could be beneficial. I believe it could be beneficial for our clients. Sometimes, files are lost, and clients may want to retrieve them. The tool could offer different options. For example, they could charge for three months, six months, or even a year of file history. Integration with other tools like Kafka, Confluence, and Apache would be beneficial. IBM Aspera is already integrated with IBM Cloud Object Storage.
All cloud environments have been pretty robust over the last few years. Of course, there's always room for improvement. If I had to choose one area, it would be making the consoles more intuitive would be helpful. Sometimes, they can be a little complicated if you're not familiar with them. Focusing on a more user-friendly console experience would be a good direction.
One area where IBM Cloud Object Storage could potentially improve is in modernizing its underlying codebase. While it is a robust and reliable solution, updating the technology stack could enhance its compatibility with newer frameworks and ensure it remains competitive in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
I can't mention right now what can be improved because I haven't explored the solution in-depth, so I just use it for the standard one. The UI is a good one till now, but it can be improved. Every time in the software world, there are a lot of improvements needed every time you come up with some new solution, especially in the UI part. So it's the customers who like it. IBM has limited cloud storage. The portability of the storage is needed, like how AWS supports Snow and other portable storage. So that needs to be included. Also, the one thing I mentioned here is that the good one is IBM Aspera for transferring mostly the infrastructure or the data, which was a very fast process. Snow is something from AWS that I would like to be added to IBM.
The performance could be better. It isn't bad, but everything is network-based, so you have a performance penalty on the network. You can never achieve the same performance as hardware. That's the disadvantage of cloud storage solutions in general. Cloud performance is one of the main issues clients have. I wouldn't use it for business-critical data that customers need to access regularly. It's suitable for storing code data. For example, say you're required to retain data for 10 or 20 years, and nobody's using it, but you need to keep it for legal purposes. Cloud Object Storage is suitable for holding that kind of data. I would like IBM to improve performance. I know that there are other tools that can help you, but you need to buy another license. For example, Aspera can help you with network latency.
The performance could improve in IBM Cloud Object Storage. The throughput or objects per second can have degradation.
Perhaps in price and they don't have a large number of additional services.